Today in Supreme Court History: June 7, 1965

6/7/1965: Griswold v. Connecticut is decided.

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[bye]

All these years later, still one of the dumbest decisions in our history. From this we get the judicial statement most mocked in modern times, a true Kamala Harris gem

Justice William O. Douglas stated that "specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance" UTTER BULLSHIT

From that we end up at Lawrence, the case that made sodomy , the most abominated perversion in history, to be acceptable.

[JoeFromtheBronx]

This opinion clearly that that there is a constitutional right of privacy, which it argued was necessary to protect multiple constitutional amendments. It used a couple fancy words that people make fun of.

Three justices also cited the Ninth Amendment, while two more relied on substantive due process, which was ultimately how the principle was upheld. There is a “liberty” to certain things that can be put in a catchall category called “privacy.”

The case has many aspects, including free speech, religion, equality, and so on, that have resulted in lots of commentary. Prof. Melissa Murray wrote multiple articles discussing it, including:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/MurrayPDF_iyfnw4ya.pdf

Finally, Griswold was not the first time the Supreme Court spoke of a right to privacy. The opinion itself cites multiple cases, which might be elided over given its overall brief length.

For instance, Mapp v. Ohio, the exclusionary rule case, spoke of the right to privacy. Griswold, like Marbury didn't invent something as such. It more firmly established it as the law of the land in a Supreme Court opinion.